Mano and Metate - MVAC Lab
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2020
- Cynthia A. Kocik, MVAC Research Intern, highlights grinding tools called mano and metate that were used to grind plant foods such as corn, nuts, and seeds into meal or flour.
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En México aun se usa para preparar tortillas el metate y oara preparar salsa el molcajete, vivo en Italia y me traje un molcajete para preparar mis salsas. 😊
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I believe that I recall that Jos. Waugh, the Canadian anthropologist, had taken a photo of Haudenosaunee Auntie, seated, and working a these tools withing a large and deep ovoid wooden bowl. I also have earlier seen at ebay, a similar bowl that looked to have been ground through at the bottom, an Oklahoma Cherokee family heirloom. I posit that it was the skittering of a metate upon the bottom over the generations that wore the bottom through. Some early Institutional collection of woodland material culture, also had published a photo of a full set of such a large and deep wood bowl containing a metate and mano. I know I have this latter, somewhere in my ponderous photo archive of Woodland material culture
Great video ! I almost exclusively hunt for tools. I find all kinds of tools on dam sights and fish weirs . I have come to the conclusion that rivers were the life blood of the agrarian life style. I also feel this way of life , particularly in the east and south may have started in early archaic times.
What are you doing with them?
Yes, ancient humans seemed to prefer to live on the edge of water.
Well you’re not going to believe this but I think I have found a settlement along the Catawba River in South Carolina. I could count at least six or seven of these scattered around a large wooded area and then several more sliding down a slope towards the river flood plain. At the bottom of the slope there looks like there was a long ditch. I’m trying to get people to come out and have a look but nobody will touch it. At least it’s inside a nature preserve for now. People are going out there and relic hunting though, and things are disappearing. I photographed some artifacts a couple weeks ago then went back a few days ago and they are gone. I’ve done everything right, but the county, state, and agencies won’t move their ass to protect this place. So much for archaeology being a valuable science.
Have you called a Game Warden?
I believe all of it.
@@JaniceHofmann yep. Got nowhere. Pissed off the archaeologists at the University of South Carolina though. Told the game warden that the archaeologist wouldn’t do anything. Everybody passed the buck and did absolutely nothing. They said they couldn’t touch it because it’s on private property, end of story. Even though there are public footpaths running through the area. I have caught people going through the woods on motorcycles and paddling up the river by canoe coming into the area to steal Artifact and dig holes in the ground. Luckily that seems to have tapered off in the last few months. Unfortunately, the damage has been done.
Thanks. May we see you making something using a replica?
Metlatł' & Metlapilli :)